Old Front Row, Brown University
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| A trio of the oldest buildings of Brown University. 'The College on the Hill.' University Hall, on the right, was built in 1770, and is reminiscent of Revolutionary days. On the front wall an ivy framed bronze tablet states in part: 'The R. I. Society S. A. R. commemorates by this tablet the occupation of this building by the Patriot Forces and their French Allies during the Revolutionary War. For six years all academic exercises were suspended. Faculty, students and graduates, almost to a man, were engaged in the service of their country.' Here, in 1776, Nathanael Greene received the honorary degree of M. A. He was the first military genius (a native of R. I.) to be honored by the College. Washington received his L. L. D. degree here in 1790. Hope College, at the left, was built in 1822; Manning Hall, centre, in 1834. Both were the gift of Nicholas Brown, for whom the University was named. |
